§ 5.10 Other limitations on applicability of this chapter.
1. Except as otherwise provided, the procedure governing the
accusation, prosecution, conviction and punishment of offenders
and offenses is not regulated by this chapter but by the criminal
procedure law.
2. This chapter does not affect any power conferred by law
upon any court-martial or other military authority or officer to
prosecute and punish conduct and offenders violating military
codes or laws.
3. This chapter does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect
any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture or other
remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil
action, regardless of whether the conduct involved in such civil
action constitutes an offense defined in this chapter.
4. Sections 120.45, 120.50, 120.55, 120.60 and 240.25, subdivisions
two and three of section 240.26, and
sections 240.70 and 240.71 of this chapter (a) do not apply to conduct
which is otherwise lawful under the provisions of the national labor
relations act as amended, the national railway labor act as amended, or
the federal employment labor management act as amended, and (b) do not
bar any conduct, including, but not limited to, peaceful picketing or
other peaceful demonstration, protected from legal prohibition by the
federal and state constitutions.
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